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Last week I went to see an excellent play at the National Theatre called The Collaborators by John Hodge. The play explored Josef Stalin’s unlikely admiration for dissident playwright Mikhail Bulgakov and…
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‘Western civilization? I think it would be a good idea.’ Mahatma Gandhi The US army staff sergeant Robert Bales, who shot dead Afghani civilians on their home two weeks…
March 25, 2012 / 6 Comments / Read MoreOn the topic of the OS X backdoor that I found this week, Apple says: "We have just revoked the appropriate Developer ID certificate."
— Jacob Appelbaum (@ioerror) May 16, 2013
‘Windmills of Your Mind’, the seminal hallucinogenic break-up ditty first known to English-speaking audiences as the signature sound track song to the Thomas Crown Affair, is itself a cover of a French song. This masterful poetic piece has been performed by everyone from Dusty Springfield, to Barbara Streisand, the Muppets and Sting, so now I’d [...]
May 19, 2013 / No Comment / Read MorePart 1 This edition considers british intelligence, spies and traitors. Discussion Participants: Rt Hon Merlyn Rees MP Former Home Secretary and Secretary of State for Northern Ireland H. Montgomery Hyde Writer and former MI6 Officer Robert Harbinson Writer, composer and lecturer Air Commodore Alastair Mackie Former Cabinet Secretary on the Joint Intelligence Committee and Vice [...]
May 18, 2013 / No Comment / Read More“This Is What Winning Looks Like” is a disturbing new documentary about the ineptitude, drug abuse, sexual misconduct, and corruption of the Afghan security forces as well as the reduced role of US Marines due to the troop withdrawal. In part two, we see on-the-ground footage of fighting between the Afghan forces and the Taliban [...]
May 17, 2013 / No Comment / Read MoreMay 16 marks a dark milestone in the history of the world’s most maligned prison – 100 days of a mass hunger strike at Guantanamo Bay. Out of 166 inmates – 130 are on strike according to prisoners, while the military only admits to 102. At least a third of them are being force fed [...]
May 16, 2013 / No Comment / Read More“This Is What Winning Looks Like” is a disturbing new documentary about the ineptitude, drug abuse, sexual misconduct, and corruption of the Afghan security forces as well as the reduced role of US Marines due to the troop withdrawal. In part one, we see just how chaotic and hopeless the situation is in Sangin, one [...]
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